By MICHAEL MELIA
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Several detainees at Guantanamo Bay have joined a long-running hunger strike that attorneys say is a protest against harsher conditions at a new prison unit, bringing their number to 13, a spokesman at the U.S. military base said Monday.
All were being force-fed through tubes inserted into their noses, said Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand, a Guantanamo spokesman. The strike, which began in 2005, has had as many as a dozen participants
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Several detainees at Guantanamo Bay have joined a long-running hunger strike that attorneys say is a protest against harsher conditions at a new prison unit, bringing their number to 13, a spokesman at the U.S. military base said Monday.
All were being force-fed through tubes inserted into their noses, said Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand, a Guantanamo spokesman. The strike, which began in 2005, has had as many as a dozen participants